Author : Agnes Nyiraruhimbi
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 25,98 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Corn
ISBN :
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Author : Tim Hart
Publisher : HSRC Press
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 16,47 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780796921628
The paper looks primarily at recent examples of agricultural practices in which resource-poor agrarian householders have used their indigenous knowledge, as well as innovations to overcome many of the socioeconomic, political and environmental constraints they experience.
Author : Felix I. Nweke
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 20,21 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Miguel A. Altieri
Publisher :
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 25,66 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Traditional farming
ISBN : 9789832729556
Author : Michael Mortimore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,74 MB
Release : 1989-03-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521323123
This book embodies the results of thirteen years of research in drought-prone rural areas in the semi-arid zone of northern Nigeria. It describes the patterns of adaptive behaviour observed among Hausa, Ful'be and Manga communities in response to recurrent drought in the 1970s and 1980s. The question of desertification is explored in an area where the visible evidence of moving sand dunes is dramatic blame are examined in relation to the field evidence. A critique is offered of deterministic theories and authoritarian solutions. Professor Mortimore demonstrates a parallel between the observable resilience of semi-arid ecosystems and the adaptive strategies of the human communities that inhabit them and suggests policy directions for strengthening that resilience.
Author : Dessalegn Rahmato
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 17,43 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789171063144
What do peasants do in the face of severe food crisis and ecological stress, and how do they manage to survive on their own? This study revolves around a case study conducted by the author in the awraja (district) in the Ambassel Wollo province in northeastern Ethiopia. This is in the region that was hit hardest by the 1984-85 famine, which Rahmato calls "the worst tragedy rural Ethiopia had ever experienced". The author also critically examines other literature on famine response. The focus of this study is on what happens before famine comes, and how the peasants prepare for it. From a wealth of evidence, the author concludes that the seeds of famine are sown during the years of recovery.
Author : Brian Thompson
Publisher : CABI
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 36,50 MB
Release : 2014-04-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 1780642997
Nutrition-sensitive, food-based approaches towards hunger and malnutrition are effective, sustainable and long-term solutions. This book discusses the policy, strategic, methodological, technical and programmatic issues associated with such approaches, proposes “best practices” for the design, targeting, implementation and evaluation of specific nutrition-sensitive, food-based interventions and for improved methodologies for evaluating their efficacy and cost-effectiveness, and provides practical lessons for advancing nutrition-sensitive food-based approaches for improving nutrition at policy and programme level.
Author : John Nauright
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 14,8 MB
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1557286493
A collection of essays that analyze the interconnections between race, ethnicity, and sport.
Author : Washington A. Jalango Okumu
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,4 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781592210138
An intellectual tour de force, this bold, imaginative and provocative analysis of Africa's striving for political stability and economic growth demonstrates the potential for an African Renaissance today. One of Africa's leading intellectuals, Okumu analyses new initiatives such as NEPAD and discusses their potential role in Africa's economic welfare and future, while putting forward his own practical, policy oriented programme for an African Renaissance.
Author : Catherine Alum Odora Hoppers
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,82 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781919876580
This book explores the role of the social and natural sciences in supporting the development of indigenous knowledge systems. It looks at how indigenous knowledge systems can impact on the transformation of knowledge generating institutions such as scientific and higher education institutions on the one hand, and the policy domain on the other.
